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26 December 2010 
One night in the early 1980s, the boss took his attractive protegee to dinner at the legendary LA restaurant, Chasen’s. The New Yorker Veronica Sue Cohen emerged with a California-friendly name. She didn’t look far for inspiration. [...] 25 December 2010 
Film zany Michael Schlesinger enjoyed teasing me with a Christmas contribution to arts•meme: a top-ten list of things choreographer Jack Cole liked about Christmas. [...] 10 November 2010
It was my great honor to join a panel at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival on Saturday, August 14, 2010, to honor the peerless jazz choreographer Jack Cole, whom I revere and about whom I have written. As a former Denishawn dancer, Cole had a distinct history at “The Pillow.” Here I contribute a snippet about Cole’s choreography for Marilyn Monroe in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” [...] 6 September 2010 
Marilyn was experienced by then, she had done about 20 films by that time. But she was missing her marks all the time. You know, there are marks — places to stand where the lighting, sound, camera angle are all correct. So the director [Josh Logan] told me, every time, put your hands on her hips and move her into her mark. I was doing this the whole film.” [...] 1 August 2010 
An afternoon symposium at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival will remember dancer/choreographer Jack Cole, August 14, 2010. arts·meme will attend. [...] 24 June 2010 
Jane Russell speaks at Hollywood Heritage about choreographer Jack Cole, who coached her and Marilyn Monroe in Howard Hawk’s comic masterpiece, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” She says Cole directed the film’s dance sequences. [...] 6 August 2009 
Marilyn Monroe’s six-movie collaboration with Jack Cole began with 1953’s “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” the breakthrough film that made her a superstar. Yet the man behind the icon has been forgotten – an odd missing puzzle piece in view of Monroe’s staying power. [...] 4 July 2008 
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell are giant amazons in Howard Hawks’s comic masterpiece, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), projected on the humongous screen of the vintage Los Angeles Theater (1931) on Broadway in downtown L.A. in last summer’s Last Remaining Seats. [...] |
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